Heartland Named as One of US’s Top Techno Innovators

Heartland Payment Systems one of the US’s largest payments processors and leading provider of merchant business solutions, has been named one of the top technology innovators in the U.S. for seven years in a row by InformationWeek, ranking #106 on the 2013 InformationWeek 500. Heartland’s award represented recognition for its innovative SmartLink managed network solution. Initially designed

PayPal Beacon To Reinvent the In-store Shopping Experience

PayPal has announced PayPal Beacon, a new technology for merchants that will enable consumers to pay at many of their favorite stores completely hands-free. It will reinvent today’s in-store shopping experience by making it simpler, faster and richer for consumers, while providing retailers with more ways to differentiate themselves from their competitors. “PayPal Beacon opens

TSYS Signs Long-Term Acquiring Agreement With US’s Anovia Payments, LLC

TSYS announced the signing of a long-term agreement with Anovia Payments, LLC, to provide full-service payment processing solutions and tools to support Anovia Payments and their customers. Based in Irving, Texas, Anovia Payments simplifies payment acceptance for merchants and partners by offering transparent pricing, cutting-edge products and technology with streamlined support — all managed by

VeriFone Reports Results for the Third Quarter of Fiscal 2013

VeriFone Systems, Inc.  the global leader in secure electronic payment solutions, announced financial results for the three months ended July 31, 2013 (“Q3 FY13”). Non-GAAP net revenues for Q3 FY13 were $418 million, compared to $493 million a year ago, a 15% decrease. GAAP net revenues were $416 million, compared to $489 million a year

The Mondragon Bank and National Cooperative Bank to Partner in Cooperatives

The world’s largest industrial, worker-owned and run cooperative, Mondragon, founded in the Basque region of Spain over fifty-five years ago and winner of the 2013 Financial Times “Boldness in Business” award has agreed through its cooperative bank, Laboral Kutxa, to partner and build cooperative stakeholder businesses in local living economies throughout America with the U.S.

VeriFone Delivers POS Software Platform for Tablets to ISOs and Acquirers

VeriFone Systems, Inc. launched GlobalBay Merchant, a new point of sale software platform and support infrastructure designed to help ISOs and acquirers providetablet POS solutions to small and medium businesses (SMBs). GlobalBay Merchant is an extension of the VeriFone GlobalBay line of software already in use by a number of sophisticated, highly integrated retail organizations. Currently

Western Union Now Available to Consumers Using Sprint Prepaid Mobile

The Western Union Company a leader in global payment services, today announced that users of Sprint prepaid brands Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USAnow have access to Western Union® mobile money transfer services. Sprint’s Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile customers can initiate a Western Union Money Transfer® transaction directly from the Money Center within the Boost Zone and Virgin Zone portals on

Wincor Nixdorf Receives Best ATM technology Award for CINEO Systems

Wincor Nixdorf has won the “Innovation in Technology and Transaction Banking Award 2013” in the category “Best ATM Technology” presented by the prestigious English-language magazine The Banker. The jury has thus honored the innovative solution approach for improving cash processes, made possible by Wincor Nixdorf’s CINEO system generation, the new security concept and the multifunctionality

Wargaming.net to Add Karma Koin Payments

Wargaming.net has announced that they will begin to accept Karma Koin, a prepaid card solution developed by Nexon America, for in-game purchases in their highly successful massively multiplayer online (MMO) war titles. Available in denominations ranging from $10 – $500, Karma Koin can be purchased at more than 75,000 stores in the United States, Canada,

Oberthur Technologies Ranked 1st in Contactless Smart Cards Market

Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s largest providers of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, announced that it has been ranked number one in ABI Research’s competitive assessment of companies providing contactless solutions (NFC) to Mobile Network Operators, device manufacturers and service partners. ABI Research’s vendor matrix analysed competitors’ strengths